The Racek Decision (Daniel Racek v DP World Sydney - [2019] FWC 772), published on 8 February 2019, is a very important decision which...

In my latest book, Paper Safe: The triumph of bureaucracy in safety management, I looked at the obligations of an employer to warn...

SafeWork NSW v Opcon Plumbing Pty Ltd; SafeWork NSW v Annous Keywords: Due Diligence; Company Officers I have written before about the...

R v Kite [1996] 2 Cr. App. R.(S.) 295 The Kite case is slightly different from some of the decisions we have looked at in the Safety...

Safe Work (NSW) v Action Concreting and Constructions Pty Ltd [2017] NSWDC 191 The Action Concreting case is not one I used in my recent...

Harbour City Ferries Pty Ltd v Mr Christopher Toms [2014] FWCFB 6249 While the Harbour City Ferries case is not a prosecution under...

Boland v BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Corporation Pty Ltd [2018] SAET 167 This BHP case is a sentencing decision, but it raises some...

Safe Work NSW v Wollongong Glass P/L [2016] NSWDC 58 Keywords: Reasonably Practicable; Safe Work Method Statement; Drugs and alcohol in...

DPP v Hungry Jacks, Visy & Veolia [2018] VCC 1454 Keywords: Reasonably Practicable; Control; Contractor Safety Management The Hungry...

Moore v SD Tillett Memorials Pty Ltd [2002] SAIRC 47 Keywords: Reasonably Practicable; documented procedures; one-off departure by an...